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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to WONB. bibliomaniac15 05:55, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WOHA-FM

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Radio station of unclear notability that doesn't exist yet. ... discospinster talk 13:39, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. ... discospinster talk 13:39, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. ... discospinster talk 13:39, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • merge with WONB. I can't see enough notability for a standalone. Although looking at that article, there's also no references included. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 16:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • delete - too soon. WONB should be merged and redirected to Ohio Northern University. Sounds like the call letters are being retired for over the air broadcasts. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 22:08, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Unnecessary - We don't need two articles for the same station. History merge (pinging Mlaffs), callsign merge, and put everything on the current callsign. Don't create two pages for the same station. You know this people. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:34 on April 9, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
  • Redirect to WJTA This station is planned as a 24/7 simulcast of that station with no local programming whatsoever; a mere mention of its calls and basic details, followed by a link to their FMQ is more appropriate than creating an unneeded carbon copy. Appropriate mention of the station's fate can be made on the WONB page, which can be retitled WONB (1991–2020) once the transfer from ONU to Holy Family Communications is actually made. However, I will cede to Mlaff's analysis of the situation, as they might have a better suggestion. Nate • (chatter) 05:03, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment: Since WONB has the history of the station, just going straight redirect kinda loses all that history. Sometimes, even though a station is a 24/7 simulcast, having a page with historical information of past ownerships is OK. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 10:29 on April 9, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
  • In and of itself, a separate article on WOHA is a bit premature, simply because that call sign hasn't taken effect yet and that incarnation of the station is yet to launch. (The current general practice is that yet-to-launch stations generally don't get articles unless the general notability guideline is somehow met in some other way.) Since WOHA will operate on the same license as the current WONB, for all intents and purposes it isn't independently notable of WONB. Yet apparently the current WONB programming, and that identity, will continue as a webcast, that without the connection to a licensed broadcast station probably wouldn't be independently notable of Ohio Northern University. But any potential notability for the station with this broadcast license is tied in to the fact that WONB as it exists now originates programming; detached from that, WOHA will not be independently notable of its parent station WJTA! And that's all before considering the present limited-to-no sourcing. (And the article title is wrong, as the WOHA call sign request doesn't include an "-FM" suffix, so under naming conventions it would be more properly at WOHA (FM) — a questionable-notability radio station seems unlikely to displace the Singapore architectural firm that is the current primary topic at WOHA, but that's beyond the scope of AfD.) I suspect in the end some nominal merging of sourced content, and redirects as required, should happen, somewhere and somehow… but for the WOHA-FM article as it exists now, I'm leaning towards delete. --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:16, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete this article, add information about the sale to the article currently at WONB, and move WONB to WOHA (FM), with WOHA-FM as a redirect, when the call sign change is official in FCC databases. Typically, we maintain one article per station license. A station that is currently a rebroadcaster of a larger network but was a separate station in the past typically has its own article (similar examples from my DYK record include KYFO-FM and KNKL (FM)). Raymie (t • c) 04:00, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Planned call sign, and not even the correct form of it. Delete this article, and then we can figure out how to handle splitting up the WONB article once the license assignment has closed and the change of call sign has actually taken place. Mlaffs (talk) 15:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
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